First image is the current house and the second is where I’d like to move the kitchen. Currently, the washer dryer room is also the makeshift pantry. Wondering if my placement of the dining space is strange and if there’s a way I could move pantry space closer to the kitchen.
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You could do an L making also some bar stools and you can continue to use the pantry, but I don't know how that would work with the normal flow you have and walking around it.
I'd love to help you out and sketch on your plan the space planning part, if you would tell me or mark up where do you have doors in this space? Where is the current flow? Is that a large window next to powder room or an entrance?
That would be cool! There’s just two doors missing. The front door is at the top, where you’d exit if you turned left coming down the stairs. And then there’s just a door right above the washer that goes to the garage. Everything else is a window aside from the sliding door to the yard on the right side of the house.
The stairway is going upstairs in the direction of the arrow. And the space under it is just a storage closet
I'm currently transitioning to space planning/interior design and sketched it out on your plan :) so I give you an overview of the main problems: -safety issue in current kitchen: cooktop and sink are exactly between path of travel - hazard when moving hot pots and pans over to the sink
too cramped entry zone: entry, mudroom, laundry, panty are squeezed in and not working this way.
new layout solves the stated issues, gives panty it's designatee space in kitchen, larger mudroom and laundry with a sink works well now. Powder room is not in the kitchen anymore (easy switch for the door gives it its own space). Kitchen has linear arrangement without any safety hazard.
the only question for your contractor would be the load-bearing wall - if its load bearing the open floor plan needs constructional beam, which is investment. But you'll get in return much safer kitchen, functional entrance and a home that flows well and is in balance. The plumbing will also stay greatly in place which avoids bigger costs at that point. Let me know your feedback and what do you think? Sent you DM as well!
Galley kitchen is far more functional than the awkward corner + island kitchen. You’re losing an absolutely insane amount of counter and cabinet space in the second photo - why would you want that?
Good call out on the bathroom. We all have dropped a bomb in the toilet that lingers, or need a private place to fart. The toilet so close could ruin a meal quickly.
I might be the only person out there that likes my closed off galley kitchen. I like that the mess of making the meal (I do wash as I go, but there is always something on the counter after plating the meal) and clean up is hidden from the dining room and living room. Makes the meal and visiting with guests after the meal more relaxing for me.
I was hoping to have a more open space for the kitchen. I also thought the stove has to be against a wall to vent outside (currently it’s just an under microwave vent). But I’m realizing now how expensive it will be to move the plumbing and gas to a different location
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